Peggy Polias
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Peggy Polias was born in Sydney in 1981, the eldest of five children.
As a school student Polias learned to play the piano and began writing
original pieces for the instrument. Later she graduated from Sydney University
in 2002 with a B.Mus. (Composition). Since graduating, Polias has worked as
a music copyist, setting works by leading contemporary Australian composers,
and spent some years teaching piano and music theory from her home studio,
as well as composing.
Polias is currently studying towards a Master of Music in composition at
the Sydney Conservatorium under the supervision of Prof. Anne Boyd and Dr.
Matthew Hindson. Most of Polias’s recent works have been performed and several
have won prizes, including The Moon, which won the
2007 Women’s Composer Prize awarded by the FAC and the University of Sydney.
For the past 5 years Polias has played in the Langen Suka Sydney Javanese Gamelan ensemble.
She also enjoys using computers and built her current one.
www.peggypolias.com
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